Putting your first ham radio station together can be an expensive proposition. One way to cut costs is to keep the antenna simple. Here’s how WB1FSB shaved the price and provided four band operation. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1os8GDj9Ydcp93W6r9TxBPJXp7zqPJOGu/preview
Author: Simone
Born in 1970 currently live in Florence Italy.
Married with 2 childrens work as IT Technician.
Homebrew G5RV All Bander
The G5RV is an easy-to-build 80-10 dipole requiring no traps. All bands are covered, including 30, 17, and 12. The G5RV has high SWR, by design, on most bands and a tuner is required. Unlike most dipoles, the “basic” design is not a 1/2 wave, but instead a 3/2 wave dipole on 20 meters. A…
55′ Vertical Antenna For 40/80/160 Meters
The basic antenna is a vertical monopole, using elevated radials to complete the “ground plane.” I use it only on the weekends, primarily for contests, thus it is designed to be raised and lowered with a minimum of fuss. It is a full-size 40 meter 1/4 wavelength vertical, with from four to eight tuned radials…
A Stealthy 75 meter Antenna
The 75 meter dipole at K7ZB was put up to meet the need for making contacts with friends in the Southwest and Southern California. As usual, it had to be put up so no one can see it from the surrounding neighborhood. The objective was accomplished as shown below, which is the site drawing for…
144 430 portable antenna picture gallery
Yagi Designer 2.0
The Yagi Designer program was first developed in 1992 on a DEC-Vax 3100 and written in Fortran, and the output was graphed in Mathematica 2.0. It has since been converted into a DLL with lightning fast speed compiled in the C language. It was written by a physicist that has always enjoyed dabbling in radio….
20/40 Dual Band Dipole
This is a simple dipole built for two-band operation that I made for portable use with my 20 and 40 meter QRP rigs. It was built to take along camping so I would only have to take & put up one antenna instead of two. The antenna consists of a regular 40 meter dipole using a…
2 element Yagi for 10 meters band
A 2 element beam antenna for 10 meters band Living in a condo has many advantages, none of which is being able to mount a tribander on a 60-foot tower. So I make do with a long, thin random wire that works nicely as long as the New England wind, snow and ice don’t conspire…
DL2HCB Multiband Delta Loop
After a Qth change last year, I was fortunate to get permission for an outside antenna. The new antenna was built with the following considerations in mind. At least 10 – 20m coverage Open wire feed to simplify matching the various impedances Loop design, because it is less sensitive to nearby objects and it requires…
A Practical Antenna for 160 Metres
Original article published by G3YCC “This aerial is one I have used for top band (160 metres) – it was suggested to me by Alan G4ERZ, also of Hull. It consists of 140 feet of insulated wire, the first half of which (70 feet) is space wound on an insulated tube. I used glass fibre…